LongAndShort said:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I can't be arsed to explain or spoil it, but let's just say that I don't understand why ME3 is remembered with such bile by so many people and Deus Ex:HR isn't.
Can't speak for anyone else, but for me...
1. There was already precedent within the
Deus Ex series for a last-minute "A/B/C" style ending where you can choose whichever ending you want regardless of your previous actions/decisions within the game.
Deus Ex and
Deus Ex: Invisible War both did the exact same thing. It's disappointing, sure. But it's also kind of expected by now.
2. The endings in
Deus Ex: Human Revolution, despite being unsatisfying, at least felt like natural endings to the game based upon where the story was going and more-or-less tied everything up. The
Mass Effect 3 ending felt like it came out of nowhere to me, and left me asking a ton of questions that the series completely failed to answer.
3. The original
Mass Effect 3 ending requires people to behave out-of-character to even work. Why was Joker flying
away from a Mass Relay? Am I supposed to honestly believe that Joker, one of my most trusted allies, stole my ship and went AWOL mid-battle? Liara T'Soni, my Shepard's love interest, was apparently cool with abandoning Shepard too? And what about Javik, was he apparently fine with running away as well despite his whole "after this is done I'm going to kill myself anyway" speech? Why was Shepard so quick to trust an AI with a clear connection to the Reapers? If Shepard picks the "blue" control ending, isn't that a bit hypocritical seeing as how that's the exact same thing you spent the entire game trying to convince the Illusive Man wouldn't work? If you pick the "red" ending why does Shepard feel the need to stupidly walk
into the explosion when he/she could have just shot at it from a safe distance? If you pick the "green" ending why doesn't Shepard question... anything... about the complete absurdity of it before enthusiastically killing him/herself for potentially nothing?
4. The
Deus Ex: Human Revolution developers didn't spend every opportunity available to them prior to the game's release promising that the game would have a spectacular ending. Casey Hudson from the
Mass Effect team is quoted promising that
Mass Effect 3 wouldn't have an A/B/C choice ending, and that the ending you get will be based upon your decisions within the series. The
Mass Effect team lied like crazy to their fanbase, and the fanbase called them out on it.
I still love the
Mass Effect franchise as a whole, and I even enjoyed
ME3 for the most part, but yeah... it's ending, to me at least, absolutely deserved more ire than
DX:HR's.
Zeren said:
To be fair, R6V2 did follow up and the ending felt good.
That doesn't really excuse the fact that R6V's ending is ridiculously abrupt and insulting to the people who played it. Not to mention that it held the ending hostage for two years with a $60 ransom.